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Life Quotes by John Muir
- It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
- What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
- Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
- Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun…
- Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
- Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
- No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
- Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-…
- I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a…
- Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
- Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long…
- Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand…
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the…
- But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain…
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly…
- Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it…
- Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely…
- Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity...
- I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever…
- Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light…
- The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;…
- By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood…
- I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.
- Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle